“Jumah at the DNC” is being presented by the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs, or BIMA, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1. A brochure for the event
says the group has “been authorized by the Democratic National
Convention (DNC) to conduct Jumah prayer as well as host festivities and
Islamically related functions.”

BIMA claims the event is nonpolitical and nonpartisan. However, the
brochure for the event has a section for participants to “support the
DNC” and make a contribution in an amount ranging from $500 to $10,000.
The Washington Times reported the DNC lists the Muslim event as an
“official function” and claims that the Islamic leaders of the program
are typical of the DNC community.

The event is expected to draw up to 20,000 Muslims and will include a Friday Jumah prayer ritual and an issues conference. A letter posted on BIMA’s website
says its purpose is to “address the concerns and issues that are
challenging to the American Muslim Community in the 21st century.” The
letter calls on Muslims to stand up and “repel the outright injustices
being perpetuated against the American Muslim Community.”

BIMA spokesman Jibril Hough told the Charlotte Observer that among
the grievances are the Patriot Act, National Defense Authorization Act
and the New York Police Department’s wiretapping program that Hough says
was used to spy on Muslims.

Islam expert Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch.org, said it is
apparent the group plans to use the event as a platform to claim Muslims
are being persecuted in America.

“A reading of its agenda makes it clear that the conference will be
used to portray Muslims as the innocent victims of a bigoted, racist,
‘Islamophobic’ government and law enforcement establishment that
unfairly scapegoats Muslims for the misguided deeds of a few
misunderstanders of Islam on Sept. 11,” he said.

Spencer noted that Hough’s mosque, the Islamic Center of Charlotte,
is owned by a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The North American Islamic
Trust, or NAIT, which owns the mosque, was named as an unindicted
co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorist funding case. The
largest terrorist funding case in American history, it resulted in
multiple convictions.

When confronted about the Muslim Brotherhood connection on a radio
show, Hough refused to denounce NAIT, saying he was “not necessarily” a
member of the group

Hough has also stated in a video that Muslims have been living in America since before the first Christians arrived.

The Grand Imam for the Jumah at the DNC is Siraj Wahhaj, one of the most sought-after speakers by Muslim organizations.

WND reported Wahhaj
urged the violent overthrow of the “filthy” U.S. government and the
establishment of Islamic law. Additionally, Wahhaj was listed as a
“potential unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing and testified as a character witness for “blind sheikh” Omar
Abdel-Rahman, a convicted WTC terrorist mastermind.

He has also is on record saying Islam is a militant religion.

“We don’t have a turn-the-other-cheek philosophy” like the
Christians, he said. “Allah has given us permission to fight them” so
that “the word of Allah can be uppermost.”

Another speaker at the DNC event will be Capt. James Yee, who is
listed in a promotional video as the BIMA national representative for
the DNC. The brochure lists Yee as a “chaplain in the U.S. military” who
was an “eyewitness to the unjust treatment of military detainees and
prisoners of Guantanamo Bay” and was himself “detained” when he took
steps to “prevent this injustice.”

Yee was charged by the government with possessing classified
information after being discovered with detailed maps of the detention
facility along with other classified materials.

The charges against Yee were eventually dropped over national security concerns about evidence in the case.

"Clean Energy" Is Obama-Speak for Crony Government

Breaking news: The Fishwrap of Record has finally discovered that
the Obama administration gives its Chicago corporate pals special
access to power and regulatory favoritism. On Thursday, The Not-So-New
York Times published an A1 story titled "Ties to Obama Aided in Access
for Big Utility."

Everyone, put on your shocked faces!

"With energy an increasingly pivotal issue for the Obama White
House," the Times intoned, "a review of Exelon's relationship with the
administration shows how familiarity has helped foster access at the
upper reaches of government and how, in some cases, the outcome has been
favorable for Exelon."

You mean Hope and Change was all smoke and mirrors? Well, knock me over with a feather and call me Grandpa Daley!

White House press flack Jay Carney played dumb when asked
about the report, which detailed "an unusually large number of meetings
with top administration officials at key moments in the consideration of
environmental regulations that have been drafted in a way that hurt
Exelon's competitors."

"I'm not sure what the issue is, frankly," Carney told the
Beltway press corps. Carney, a former Time magazine journalist who
pointedly reminded his former media colleagues that he "was a reporter,"
apparently forgot all the connect-the-dots training he got at his
once-hallowed publication.

The issue, dear Carney, is favor-trading and access-peddling.
Government for the cronies, by the cronies and of the cronies. The
Times spelled it out: "I would like to get some treatment in Washington
like that," Ken Anderson, general manager at Tri-State G and T, a
Colorado-based power supplier that has been at odds with Exelon over
environmental regulations, told the paper. "But Exelon seems to get
deference that I can't get."

As I noted back in January in my column on Obama's green
robber barons, my scouring of White House visitor logs showed nine
visits from Illinois-based Exelon's CEO John Rowe, who met with the
president and former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel multiple times. The
clean energy company's deep ties had already been illuminated by several
other business publications, including Forbes and Crain's.

Frank M. Clark, the veteran lobbyist who runs Exelon's
Commonwealth Edison, the largest electric utility in Illinois, is a top
Obama adviser and fundraiser dating back to the former community
organizer's Illinois State Senate days. Longtime Obama campaign guru
David Axelrod worked as a consultant to Exelon. And Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel helped create Exelon -- where he raked in more than $16 million
over two years.

Carney's boss once made it a central hobbyhorse of his
presidential campaign. When he announced his presidential intentions in
2007, candidate Obama decried "the cynics, the lobbyists, the special
interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford
to play." He indignantly singled out "the best bundlers" who get the
"greatest access" to power. ComEd's Clark bundled at least $200,000 for
Obama in 2008 and at least $100,000 for the 2012 cycle, and forked over
nearly $30,000 more to committees supporting Obama. Earlier this year,
Obama acknowledged raising at least $74 million through his team of
big-time bundlers who have been showered with access, tax dollars and
plum patronage positions.

It's taken four years for the media lapdoggies to call out
the Naked Emperor of Chicago-on-the-Potomac.

Better late than never, ya
think? I hear the crackerjack reporters at ye Olde York Times may be
planning a special in-depth investigative series on the president's
dirty D.C. business-as-usual administration slated to run sometime after
Election Day. They could call it "Culture of Corruption: Obama's Team
of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies." Oh, wait...

Romney goes 'birther' on Obama

Mitt cracks joke about his personal papers

Campaigning today in the state of his birth, Michigan, Mitt Romney joked about the birth certificate issue that has dogged Barack Obama, drawing an immediate sharp attack from the Obama campaign.

“I love being home, in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us were born,” said Romney, who was sporting an open-collar white shirt with his sleeves rolled up as his wife and running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., stood nearby.

“Ann was born in Henry Ford Hospital; I was born in Harper Hospital. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate; they know that this is the place that we were born and raised,” Romney quipped.

His comments at the Long Family Orchard, Farm & Cider Mill in Commerce Township, Mich., were in the first three minutes of a speech in a 45-minute campaign event recorded in its entirety by C-Span.

In response, the Obama campaign shot back just a couple of hours later with a post on the president’s Facebook page:

Mitt Romney directly enlisted himself in the birther movement this morning: “No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know this is the place I was born.” Get the President’s back. Stand with him in this election against false, divisive charges.

The Obama campaign posted the response with a photo of Obama at a podium, squinting in the sun, wearing a white shirt with a blue tie, his sleeves also rolled up his forearms.

Within an hour, the Obama response received more than 3,000 mostly supportive comments and more than 26,000 “like it” endorsements.

When Romney released his birth certificate in May, media raised the question of his eligibility, because his father, Gov. George Romney, was born in Mexico. WND reported Mitt Romney’s parents were U.S. citizens when Romney was born in Detroit, making him a “natural born citizen” under Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.

The Post further noted the Obama campaign “seized on the remark to argue that Romney was embracing ‘strident’ conservatives, including real estate mogul Donald Trump and Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, two of the most hard-line opponents to illegal immigration.”

The newspaper also published Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt’s statement: “Throughout this campaign, Governor Romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up for them. Governor Romney’s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter around America.”

CBS News reported Romney campaign aide Kevin Madden sent an email to reporters saying the candidate was “only referencing that Michigan, where he is campaigning today, is the state where he himself was born and raised.”

Madden insisted Romney had not intended the comment as an attack on Obama.

“The governor has always said, and has repeatedly said, he believes the president was born here in the United States,” Madden wrote.

“This is the kind of gutterball politics that will and should turn the American people off,” Psaki told MSNBC, as reported by The Hill.

"Mitt Romney has questioned repeatedly over the last several months whether the president understands America, whether he understands freedom – he’s wrapped his arms around Donald Trump, one of the originators of the birther movement, so we’ve seen a pattern here.”

The Hill further reported MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell asked Psaki how Romney’s comments differed in substance from a recent quip by Obama on a now infamous incident in which Romney strapped the family dog to the roof of his car.

Psaki defended Obama’s comment as a “light moment in a longer speech about the wind energy tax credit and how important that is for jobs,” not explaining how it differed in tone or nature from Romney’s comment.

Talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh had a question for Psaki on his top-rated show today.

“I thought this birth-certificate thing was a win-win for you guys because only kooks and idiots and extremists believe the birth certificate is a forgery. If that’s the case, why wouldn’t you want people to be making jokes about it?”

“So, what’s the deal,” Limbaugh continued. “Why are they so sensitive about this? There is only one real possibility: that Obama is such a narcissist, that you don’t dare criticize him.”

As WND reported, Arizona Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s law enforcement investigation into Obama’s eligibility has concluded that the long-form birth certificate posted on the White House website April 27, 2011, is a computer-generated forgery.

Obama has refused requests to give the Hawaii Department of Health permission to make whatever original 1961 birth records it may have available for public view or inspection by court-certified forensic examiners.

"Many members judged that additional monetary accommodation would likely be warranted fairly soon unless incoming information pointed to a substantial and sustainable strengthening in the pace of the economic recovery," stated the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee’s most recent meeting.

Our economy is stalled we all know that even if Obama doesn’t, and we don’t need the Feds to tell us what we all can see just by looking around at all those unemployed.And if you just look at our gross domestic product (GDP), the best measure of our economy's health, and see that economic growth only grew at a snail’s pace of 1.5% in the second quarter, down from 2% in the prior three months, and 4.1% in the fourth quarter of 2011, it’s kind of in your face obvious.

NOT good news for Obama at all especially if you remember his infamous words when he was first elected, or usurped as the case may be, that if he does NOT turn the economy around by the end of his first term then he does NOT deserve a second term.

Well, Obama, you most definitely do NOT deserve a second term.

The economy is now and has always been the real touch point of this election, and any Federal intervention will garner, and rightly so, political backlash from Republican leaders who have basically told Ben Bernanke and the Feds to butt out. Any rush to the rescue by the Feds this close to the November election would be nothing but a politically based maneuver to favor Obama.

But if by chance the Feds do try to be the economy’s savior, how would they do it...most likely by taking into account that with interest rates still near all-time lows, they probably will try for a third massive round of bond buying, known as quantitative easing, in order to stimulate the economy.

And that is NOT a good thing.

Quantitative easing is a government policy sometimes used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market.Quantitative easing works by increasing, albeit only temporarily, the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity.Central banks use quantitative easing when interest rates have already been lowered to near 0% levels and have failed to produce the desired economic stimulating effect. The major risk of quantitative easing is that, although more money is floating around, there is still only a fixed amount of goods for sale. This will eventually lead to higher prices or inflation and leave us NO better off than we are today.

And leading economists have predicted a bleak economic future if Obama is re-elected as he has NO clue as to how a successful economy works.

Bottom line...our economic recovery has indeed slowed and is on the verge of stalling. And a harbinger of NOT good things to come is the fact that gas prices have started creeping up again, now being close to $4 a gallon for regular in many areas around the country.And this has Obama worried and has him considering a release of oil reserves from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve...just in time to use as more campaign fodder for his re-election bid.

So now there’s even more NOT happy economic news on the home front, and its ‘We the People’ who are on the receiving end of that news.Hurry up November 6th, we can’t take much more of this!

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